Chapter 677 “The Hepa Incident”

Chapter 677: “The Hepa Incident”

A bird?

Duncan did think about where to start explaining the truth about the “Great Annihilation” and the current state of affairs in the Deep Ages, after all, the collision of worlds and “incompatibility” is such an abstract concept that not everyone can understand it in a short period of time, but he did not expect Lune to start the conversation with a small, ordinary-looking bird. But he had no idea that Lune would start the conversation with an ordinary-looking bird.

He looked up and saw Maurice beside him looking thoughtful at the sight of the “crazy bird”.

Loon, on the other hand, placed the bird on the table in front of him under the gaze of curious eyes, and his voice was calm and clear, like a patient tutor in a classroom, explaining to the bishops the ultimate truth of the world – “The black-feathered, short-nosed seabird”.

“The Black-feathered Short-nosed Puffin, probably one of the oldest and most widely distributed birds in this world, survives on the shores of peaceful city-states, as well as on isolated islands far out to sea in treacherous environments, and even in certain horrible seas that are classified as ‘anomalies’, explorers have found these small birds surviving Traces …… But only from the physiological structure and habits of life, the black-feathered short-nosed puffin actually does not have the slightest special characteristics, they are just a kind of tenacious life force birds, that’s all.

“It wasn’t until 1723 that scholars suddenly came up with a very interesting, or creative idea – those animals that live in the world with humans, but have a different way of perceiving things than humans, what do they see ‘all things’ ‘ What does it look like?
“It was the famous scholar of the Academy of Truth, Hyppa Strongham, who first came up with the idea while playing with his pet dog at home – he looked into the dog’s eyes and suddenly realized that the animal’s eyes and brain structure were different from those of humans, and that a special set of senses would inevitably be organized in the same way as humans’. A special set of senses must be able to recognize and understand their surroundings in a wonderful and different way from human beings, and when this curiosity became so strong that it could not be suppressed, he devised the famous ‘Hippa Experiment’-

“With the aid of a series of complex occult devices, he connected his senses with animals, and the initial tests were carried out between him and his pet dog.

“The first experiment failed, and the dog narrowly escaped death in the experiment-examinations afterward showed that the dog had been subjected to an immense mental strain at the moment the connection was established, which was entirely beyond the limit of an animal’s endurance.

“So Hyppa Strongham devised a second test, and this time he decided to choose a slightly ‘inferior’ creature with a simpler brain structure – he only needed to share the creature’s perceptions, and did not want the The latter could not withstand the stress and died early in the experiment because its brain was too complex, and the final selection …… was the black-feathered short-nosed puffin.

“One late afternoon in August 1726, Hypa Strongham completed all the preparations by placing the bird in a special cage that allowed it to see the sky outside, while he lay on the experimental bed next to the cage – the ritual was initiated.

“An hour later, Hypa Strongham died, a horrific scream and a monstrous roar shattered all the windows of the laboratory, and the collapsing spirit of the scholar’s death caused a psychic tsunami in which twelve subsequent assistants and apprentices were traumatized.

“Compared to the many experimental accidents or transcendental disasters that have had more serious consequences, the human damage caused by the ‘Hepa Incident’ is not really that serious, yet certain …… chilling ‘facts’ revealed in this experimental accident are not. However, certain chilling ‘facts’ revealed in this experimental accident left a long shadow in the academic world, so much so that after that experiment, all attempts to establish sensory sharing between different species were classified as an absolute taboo-

“This is the ‘fact’ that was revealed in the accident of that experiment.”

Lune said, reaching into his robes and removing something – which appeared to be nothing more than a folded, plain-looking piece of paper.

He opened the piece of paper up – a dense pattern appeared to Duncan’s eyes.

“A torn record was found next to Hepa’s body, which had been badly twisted when it was discovered, its entire flesh and blood deformed into a ghastly form as if contaminated by an ancient god, and this record was then clutched in the scholar’s right hand, the only one that still retained a human form- Investigators judged that this should be something that the scholar had hastily depicted relying on his last sanity during his rapid descent into madness ……

“Please rest assured that this is only a ‘copy’ copied from the source material, and the contaminating parts have been removed, so it is safe for everyone to view.”

Lune held the piece of paper up and displayed it to everyone in the meeting.

What was on that? What exactly did Hyper Stronghold see on his deathbed?
Frankly speaking, even Duncan could not associate those abstract and chaotic lines with the “Hepa Experiment” in Lun’s words, he only saw a large number of curved lines that seemed to be crazy and convulsive, trembling shadows covering a series of inexplicable geometric patterns, and there are countless structures that look like eyes or bizarre hollow structures spread all over the paper, which gave people the first impression of being nothing but bizarre and chaotic. The first feeling …… is nothing but weirdness and chaos.

The hall fell into silence, “Haipa incident” is not a secret, but not everyone like scholars understand these things belong to the field of expertise, many bishops from the deep sea, death and the Church of the Firebearer is indeed the first time to hear these details, and the incident of those strange, suspicious part of the incident let all people fell into contemplation.

“This is what Hypa Strumm saw through his ‘shared senses’ when he was dying,” Lune’s voice then rang out in a silent meeting hall, “What you see is what the black-feathered short-nosed puffin saw in the eyes of the ‘world’ – and this mass of seemingly quivering, stacked curves at the edge is Hyper Strummer himself.”

There was an instant buzz of discussion around the room, as the bishops seated at the edge of the hall talked in low voices, and others looked with dismay or thoughtfulness at the plain-looking black seabird that still rested on the table.

Seemingly frightened, the “mad bird” jumped and flapped its wings in the cage, emitting a series of clear, shrill cries.

Loon put the black cloth back over the cage. “This is what has happened in our world, and what continues to happen in the ‘underlying nature’ of everything until now,” he looked up, his gaze sweeping calmly across the hall, ” The essence of ‘contamination’ stems from the ‘incompatibility’ of all things; one thing in our perspective is fatal under another perspective, or rather, another set of ‘rules’ Pollution and Erosion ……”

Over the next period of time, Lune relates what he saw in the deepest recesses of the Dream of the Nameless One.

About the nature of the Great Annihilation, about the truth of the World Crash, about the reasons behind the many pollution and erosion phenomena in the Deep Sea Era nowadays, as well as those “eternal conflicts” that still remain in the underlying laws of the world.

“…… On the day the Great Annihilation occurred, many worlds ‘collided’ with each other, and we still don’t know what the cause of this collision was, but the result . …was a ‘Hepa Incident’ that spanned many civilizations, many races, and many worlds, and in this collision, every world was each other’s ‘Madman Bird’ and each other’s ‘ Hepa Strum’, in the perspective of the ‘world’s foundational rules’, the unnamable contamination eroded and distorted everything, all the old order was gone, and the survivors ……”

Lune paused as he slowly got up and looked around at everyone here.

“We, and everything around us, and indeed the entire Age of the Deep, are the shrill whine of the ‘Hepa Strum’ on his deathbed, a whine that still echoes to this day, but is nearing its end.”

The old man exhaled softly and slowly sat back in his seat.

“That’s all I have to say, is there anything else anyone would like to add next?”

He said, his eyes falling on Duncan across the room.

“You’ve said it all,” Duncan said, “That’s all we know so far about the Great Annihilation – let’s move on to the Gods, and speculation about their nature and what you’ve been doing lately, which is also is what concerns me most.”

The bishops around the table seemed to stir slightly again, while the four popes sitting across the table exchanged brief glances after Duncan’s words – soon, the commotion quieted down, and the extraordinarily tall “Pope of the Firebearers”, dressed in plain robes and with rocky gray skin, nodded his head gently. “nodded gently.

“Judging from the clues available, what the gods represent should be the powerful or special individuals that remain after the destruction of each world in the Great Annihilation – just like the ‘charred cores’ after burning, carrying a world’s …… afterglow.”

Frem spoke in a low voice, raising his hand and tracing the outline of the Firebringer’s emblem on his chest, as if repenting for the offense of “judging the gods” at this moment, but he continued –

“…… The Great Annihilation destroyed everything in the Old World, and technically speaking, the gods did not survive that catastrophe, and about that …… in fact, we have already realized it a long time ago. ”

Hearing Frem’s words, Duncan instantly widened his eyes slightly, “You have already perceived it before this?”

At the same time, he also noticed the stunned expression that instantly surfaced on the faces of Maurice and Vanna beside him – obviously, even as saints, this was the first time they had heard such words from the Pope’s mouth.

This is a “secret” that is limited to the interior of the “Tour Ark”!
Frem nodded gently.

“Yes, we’ve long been aware of it-it’s just that we didn’t know the reason for it until now.

“The gods are dead and have begun to enter the ‘corruption stage’ …… But only a handful of Church hierarchs who toured the borders with the Patrol Ark know this truth, and the other truth is that the ……”

Frem paused briefly as he raised his head and gazed into Duncan’s eyes.

“The Patrol Ark was created to slow the ‘decay’ of the Gods – and to this day, that ‘slowing’ has basically reached its limit.

“The ‘filth’ produced by the corruption of the gods …… is on the verge of soaking into the earthly world.”

(End of chapter)